Talking-machine attachment



Patented Mar. 6, 1923.

UNITED STATES TALKING-MACHINE ATTACHMENT.

Application filed October 16, 1919. Serial No. 330,960.

To all w hom it may concer/n,

Be it known that I, JOHN E. CHRISTEN- smv, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Talking-Machine Attachments, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to talking machines employing disk records, and its object is to provide a simple and efficient device for facilitating removal of the record from the turn-table of the machine.

The object stated is attained by means of a novel combination and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter described and claimed, and in order that the same may be better understood, reference is had to the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification.

In the drawin Figure 1 is a p an view showing the application of the invention, and

Fig. 2 is a cross section on the line 2-2 of nig. l.

Referringspecically to the drawing, 5 denotes the turntable of a talking machine on which the record disk 6 is supported as' usual, the turn-table being carried by a rotatable arbor 7 and having a felt surface insert 8. At the edge of the turn-table is a continuous depending flange 9. The parts thus far described are all of well known construction, and a further description thereof is therefore not deemed necessary.

As the record disk 6 is very thin, some trouble is experienced in its removal from the turn-table 5, and hence a lifting device has been provided by which its removal is greatly facilitated. This lifting device is a lever 10 positioned beneath the turn-table and having at its inner end' a head or enlargement 11 which seats in an opening 12 made through the turn-table, so as to lie beneath the record disk. The lever is pivoted, as shown at 13, to a small bracket 13a mounted on the bottom of the turn-table, and its outer end extends thro-ugh an aperture 14 in the depending marginal ange 9 of the turn-table, from which latter it projects for a short distance so that it may bereadily grasped'. A spring 15, embedded in a recess in the under side of the record disk, bears on the lever and tends to urge the same in a direction to keep its head 11 normally seated in the opening 12 flush with the top surface of the turn-table.

When it is desired to remove the record disk 6 from the turn-table 5, the outer end of the lever 10 is pressed down, which causes the headed end 11 to rise and lift the record disk to a sufficient height so that it may be easily grasped to complete its-removal from A the turn-table.

It will be noted that the lifting lever 10 is supported solely by the turn-table, and as the head 11 is normally retained in the opening 12, the lever is always in position for the lifting operation, and no shifting or adjustment of any parts are necessary.

I claim:

1. The combination with a talking ina` chine turn-table having a depending marginal ange; of a lever pivotally supported by the turn-table on the under side'thereof, said turn-table having an opening and the lever having a record-lifting head at one end passing upwardly through the opening, and' the flange of the turn-table having an opening through which the other end of the lever extends to project from the exterior of the flange. f

2. The combination with the turnetable of a talking machine of the disk-record type; of a lever carried by the under side of the turn-table, and engageable with the record for lifting the same.

3. The combination with the turn-table of y a talking machine of the disk-record type; of a lever carried by the under side of the turn-table7 the latter having an'opening in which the inner end of the lever seats to engage the bottom of the record.

4. In a sound reproducing machine, the combination with a turn-table, of record raising means pivotally supported b v said table, and means for operating said first mentioned means.

In testimony whereof I affix m signature.

JOHN E. oHRrs lantern. 

